Magician's Assistant - Friends & Lovers Part 10

Having heard Magatrix tell them the story of how she got her comeuppance with the thin-skinned magician that had turned her in to the Magician Guild's ethics review board for employing male stage assistants, John and Nicole take their leave of Magatrix, and head back to Nikki's house in separate cars. There, Nicole gets her first taste of the effectiveness of Magatrix's identity adaptation spell.

Chapter 11

The former Michael Gerlach continued to function as Magatrix the Magnificent's lovely stage assistant for the remainder of the red headed magician's stint at the local magic club. By doing so, Nicole and John continued to broaden the bond of friendship that had been born that pivotal Saturday morning. It was also during that rather truncated period of time that Magatrix started Nicole on the long road to one day becoming a first class magic user in her own right. To do so, Magatrix provided her protegee with some transcendental meditation exercises that would help Nicole to eventually gain the mental dexterity that would allow her to access the pool of metaphysical potential, that would in turn, earn her the classification of sorceress.

Though she would eventually come to take the memory augmentation business in her stride, in those early days and weeks of her new life as a bona fide, card-carrying member of the fairer sex, Nicole never ceased to be amazed with the ease at which people accepted her as the woman into which Magatrix had turned her. Occasionally, though it was sketchy at best, Nicole thought she detected an indication that the memory-overwrite was indeed taking place. An almost imperceptible slurring or slight hesitation in someone's speech patterns was one indicator. The fluttering of the eyes was yet another.

Though she procrastinated doing so for several days, Nicole finally called her mother the following Tuesday. After apologizing for not stopping in to see her parents on Sunday as she did more times than not, Nicole informed her mother that she had something important that she needed to discuss with both her parents.